All news by author: Mikey Smith

The Deputy Labour leader will set out proposals for an Ethics and Integrity Commission, with the power to independently launch investigations into allegations of misconduct in government.

Tory Lords bosses have been urged to step in and prevent the failed Mayoral candidate accepting a peerage within two weeks while police are probing his 'jingle and mingle' bash

The True and Fair Party is set to launch its pre-election manifesto - and a bank holiday for polling day is among the proposals

The Mirror is campaigning to get defibrillators installed in schools, sports clubs, designated shops and other public buildings

The failed Tory London Mayor candidate admitted, through his lawyers, that his claim to have left to go on BBC Newsnight was "unintentionally inaccurate"

Somerset and Frome MP David Warburton announced he is quitting, triggering a fourth Tory by-election after Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams all resigned as MPs

Labour chair Anneliese Dodds has written to Mr Sunak to demand “honesty” over the “culture of brazen rule-breaking” in No10 during the Covid lockdowns

Rule 57 of the Highway Code, introduced last year, states: “When in a vehicle make sure dogs or other animals are suitably restrained so they cannot distract you while you are driving or injure you, or themselves, if you stop quickly."

Anger at Ms Dorries among her constituents had been bubbling long before her rage-quit over Mr Johnson’s honours list

The Tamworth Tory MP quit his role in the whips’ office last June after he was accused of drunkenly groping two men at a private members’ club

Just months after he and Liz Truss tanked the UK economy with their kamikaze mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng has started raking in cash from public speaking

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting tells the Mirror: 'If Rishi had had a background that was more like mine... he wouldn't have taken 20 quid off people in Universal Credit every week'

People with a 75% loan-to-value mortgage faced a typical interest rate of 4.63% in April, which is three times the 1.49% charged two years earlier - and Labour is blaming former PM Liz Truss

Keir Starmer said people have had enough of the 'farce' of Tory rule and want a general election now. He also accused Rishi Sunak of losing control as the Conservatives descend into civil war

The Labour Shadow Health Secretary's searingly honest book, One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up, charts his journey from the East End to Cambridge University and Westminster

Boris Johnson’s spokesman declined to comment on the suggestion he would stand in Nadine Dorries former Mid Bedfordshire seat - after she quit earlier today

Labour said it was “outrageous” that hard-working taxpayers will continue to pay Mr Johnson’s legal bills, as he “rakes in millions from globe-trotting speaking gigs”.

After a Sunday Mirror campaign, ministers ordered a review of the hardship suffered by veterans during and after their service as a result of the cruel ban

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary blamed record NHS waiting times and out of date benefit rules for trapping people out of work

The £16.99 flip-flops, bearing Keir Starmer's face, are significantly cheaper than the £95 designer sliders favoured by Rishi Sunak

Labour say they’ve identified six occasions where the Prime Minister has made “misleading” remarks to MPs in the Commons - some of which he’s later walked back

The bill, tabled by the Liberal Democrats, would require ministers to attend annual ethics and standards training in a bid to stem the flow of scandals surrounding the Government

Keir Starmer is poised to set out “serious, deep, long-term changes” that also aim to slash cancer deaths and improve mental health treatment - and make the NHS "fit for the future"

Labour Party has tonight warned the use of non-expert teachers – those not qualified in a subject above A-Level - is holding back pupils at schools across the country

The lots were sold at a gala dinner during a conference of the Boris Johnson-backing Conservative Democratic Organisation - with a copy of his book selling for £300